About Gemma Gorga:
Gemma Gorga was born in Barcelona in 1968, where she is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Literature. She has published six collections of poetry: Ocellania (Birdology, Barcelona, 1997); El desordre de les mans (The Hands’ Disorder, Lleida, 2003); Instruments òptics (Optical Instruments, València, 2005); Llibre dels minuts (Book of Minutes, Barcelona, 2006), which won the Premi Miquel de Palol (2006); Diafragma (Diaphragm, Girona, 2012); and Mur (Wall, Barcelona, 2015), which won the Premi de la Critica de Poesia Catalana. Her seventh collection, Viatge al centre (Vorage to the Center) is forthcoming in 2020.